Quotes about nature
nature glasses flames
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. Harry Hill
nature creative mind
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann
nature flower philosophical
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen
nature book firsts
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow. George Washington Cable
nature teaching able
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us. George Washington Carver
nature honor form
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.
nature fall believe
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.
nature book fall
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
nature noble youth
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. George Santayana
nature firsts provoking
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
nature men answers
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
nature soul conformity
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
nature animal golden
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. Fyodor Dostoevsky
nature freedom envy
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
nature law goal
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning. Friedrich Nietzsche
nature science circles
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
nature lying knowledge
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
nature sea two
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. John Ruskin
nature rain sunshine
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
nature men sky
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
nature sunset science
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
nature may steps
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. John Milton
nature womb graves
Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
nature son
And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.
nature hands sea
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
nature travel flight
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired. Noel Coward
nature book air
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale. Miguel de Cervantes
nature moving animal
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral. Thomas Jefferson
nature adversity mountain-peaks
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. Gilbert K. Chesterton
nature past squares
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future. John F. Kennedy
nature heart sky
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. Laurie Halse Anderson
nature children stress
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. Laura Bush
nature children community
We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.